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Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming
Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming by Tho. Doolittle ...
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. XII. Ten Directions to get sincere Love to Christ, showing the way of Love to him.
CHAP. XII. Ten Directions to get sincere Love to Christ, shewing the way of Love to him.
I. Clearly understand, and be throughly convinced of thy lost Estate, and miserable Condition, for Conviction, sight, and sense of Sin, and of ⟨p. 177⟩our lost Estate thereby, usually goes before the setting of the Heart and Love upon Jesus Christ; though God doth not deal with all Sinners, in all circumstances, alike, in working and begetting in them consent and love unto his Son, in divers persons the measure of Conviction is different, as in the Natural Birth, some are born after more pangs and throws than others are, so in the Spiritual Birth (in which the Love is turned unto, and set upon Christ, the day of this Birth being the day of Espousals) some God dealeth with more gently, with some more roughly. Some he melts like Wax, and some he hews like knotty Wood; some he carrieth by the Gates of Hell, to the Door of Heaven; and some he brings to Christ, and leads to Heaven with lesser Terrors.
I. CLearly understand, and be throughly convinced of thy lost Estate, and miserable Condition, for Conviction, sight, and sense of Sin, and of ⟨p. 177⟩our lost Estate thereby, usually goes before the setting of the Heart and Love upon Jesus Christ; though God doth not deal with all Sinners, in all circumstances, alike, in working and begetting in them consent and love unto his Son, in divers persons the measure of Conviction is different, as in the Natural Birth, some are born after more pangs and throws than others are, so in the Spiritual Birth (in which the Love is turned unto, and set upon Christ, the day of this Birth being the day of Espousals) some God dealeth with more gently, with some more roughly. Some he melts like Wax, and some he hews like knotty Wood; some he carrieth by the Gates of Hell, to the Door of Heaven; and some he brings to Christ, and leads to Heaven with lesser Terrors.